Chapter 325 Merit and Honor Medal

Therefore, Ningji Okamura, on behalf of the 13th Division, the 16th Division, the 18th Division, the 101st Division, the 14th Division and the 116th Division of the North China Front Army under his command, and the other four divisions and brigade commanders of the Reading Mixed Brigade went to Fengtian to ask for orders and ask for the initiative to take the Chaoyang area [* **] The headquarters of the tenth war zone carried out the final blow. In fact, Ningji Okamura's requirement was a very normal tactical move, but in Kenkichi Ueda's eyes, it was completely causing trouble for himself.

Okamura Ningji's battle sequence should belong to the Chinese dispatched army and not belong to Ueda Kenkichi's Kwantung Army. Moreover, Okamura Ningji is especially taken care of by Emperor Hirohito. As a knowledgeable man of the Showa troops of the Japanese army, for army generals, Ningji Okamura is indeed a core member of the three Gangs of Baden and Baden. And Tojo Hideki was just a sentry at that time.

It has seven field divisions and is equipped with a reading mixed brigade. The North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army, which strengthen the special forces, are self-containing system, and the two are also incompatible. Because Kenkichi Ueda is the commander of the Kwantung Army, he has no direct affiliation with Ningji Okamura, but the temporary subordinate of the battle. Yes.

Therefore, Ningji Okamura seems to be a little indifferent. He said that Ningji Okamura doesn't care about the orders and feelings of Kenkichi Ueda at all. In fact, it is impossible. Ningji Okamura is not a fool. There is also a limit to causing trouble to people with higher military ranks, qualifications and positions than himself. He doesn't know how to advance or retreat, and respect the family. There is no future in the army.

After several hesitations, Kenji Ueda finally made up his mind. With the troops of the North China Front Army commanded by Ningji Okamura, he immediately attacked the Chaoyang area and broke through the main force concentrated in the 10th war zone in one fell swoop. In Kenkichi Ueda's view, the armored division belonging to the 10th war zone is likely to have dispatched emergency reinforcements Baotou, Rehe The developed railways in Chahar, Suiyuan and other places allowed Zhang Xuewu to deliberately and quickly concentrate the troops, or even disperse them, which could not be done by the Kwantung Army under the command of Kenji Ueda.

In the face of two choices that made him extremely difficult, Kenji Ueda finally chose a relatively safe strategy to carry out the battle according to the actual situation. He did not put the seven divisions of Okamura Ningci's headquarters, four reading mixed brigades, and the heavy artillery and chariots assigned to him in a new direction to carry out the attack according to the previous plan. You should know that the Japanese army of the North China Front commanded by Ningji Okamura is a pivotal strategic pawn. The weight of this pawn can completely affect the overall balance of the battle, which is like the competition between the two giants, often overwhelm the opponent's one that is always thrown up in the last five minutes. The straw of the road.

Obviously, the troops of the North China Front Army of more than 160,000 people under the command of Ningji Okamura have long been separated from the category of "straw" and completely belong to a deadly boulder.

Therefore, Kenji Ueda finally chose a conservative way of fighting, because the losses of the first and second front armies of the Kwantung Army were quite serious, and the headquarters of the Yamashita Fengwen Third Front Army, which attacked Zhangjiakou, has not been successful. If the chariot division and the 23rd mechanized division under the command of Tojo Hideki attack Baotou The industrial base is bound to be a battle of jade. For the combat effectiveness of the elite chariot division and the 23rd mechanized division of the Kwantung Army, as well as the will to fight to the death of the empire, Kenji Ueda, as the commander of the Kwantung Army, believes that this is beyond doubt.

It can be said that I am very successful in the overall strategy, because I have successfully grasped the so-called gap between the national political axe and Zhang Xuewu's tenth war zone, focusing on attacking the tenth war zone, while the national political axe is like a safe person, becoming a watcher? Is this strange phenomenon on the Chinese battlefield very difficult for European and American countries to understand?

Li Zongren commanded Pang Bingxun's Third Army, Tang Enbo's 20th Army, Sun Lianzhong's Second Army, Sun Zhen's 22nd Army, Liu Shiyi's 31st Army, Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army, Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army, Du Yuming's Fifth Army, Wang Yaowu's 74th Army, and Deng Longguang's 80th The Third Army, Liu Yinggu's 87th Army, Han Deqin's 89th Army, Li Xianzhou's 92nd Army, Feng Qinzai's 98th Army, Shi Zhongcheng's 100th Army, and two heavy artillery brigades assigned to Li Zongren, the nine additional artillery regiments and 10 artillery regiments. Qiu Qingquan's armored brigade was under the jurisdiction of the fifth war zone, with more than 40 troops under the jurisdiction of the fifth war zone. Yu Wan, and the reinforcements from Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi and Wuhan are still in the battle sequence of Li Zongren's fifth war zone.

For the excitement of the fifth war zone, the instructions of the Supreme Military Commission are only a few simple words. Is the time yet ripe? Those who dare to act and deploy without authorization should be severely punished, so the fifth war zone, where the proud soldiers are gathered, can only frequently attack the Chinese army, making the Japanese army nervous in vain. When the Japanese army realized the fancy of the [***] team, it also began to be unscrupulous, because the Japanese army knew that the national political axe hated it at this moment. Zhang Xuewu in the tenth war zone and the Kwantung army of the emperor have to fight to the death.

However, Zhang Xuewu has no energy to take into account the attitude of the national political axe to the tenth war zone, because Zhang Xuewu has deployed a joint mission for Qin Buer and Gao Zhihang, that is, the air force concentrates all its combat strength, completely suddenly in the northeast, so that a Japanese plane can't be seen in the sky of the whole northeast, and then The cover bomber troops used incendiary bombs processed by the Soviet Union to raid the 569 barracks base of the Japanese Army in Qiqihar, and attacked Unit 731 in Harbin with light glider troops airborne special forces. After the attack was completed, the troops retreated to the Soviet Union.

Overall, in Zhang Xuewu's eyes, this is a plan that can be implemented. If the 569 troops and 731 troops of the Japanese army do it in advance, their losses will probably be difficult to calculate, so the concept of starting first has always been Zhang Xuewu's first choice.

In fact, Zhang Xuewu has considered the commendation of meritorious soldiers, the award and the award of honorary medals more than once. It can indeed effectively stimulate the fighting enthusiasm of officers and soldiers. The medal first appeared in ancient Europe. In order to distinguish the knights fighting on the battlefield, a symbol system called the medal. After development, almost every nobleman will design a unique logo, which is made on his shield, coat, flag and seal.

The coat decorated with the knight's logo becomes his robe, which can be distinguished from the logo. The Genealogy of Arms is a reading organization that specially designs unique logos and ensures that each one is unique. Its officials will record the logo in a special book and keep it for their custody.

And the army mostly uses armbands as a symbol of service, arms or technical service, and also as a symbol of rank or a symbol of the unit. For example, the armband of the Soviet army generally indicates the service or technical service of the army. The armband of the U.S. military is mainly used to indicate the rank of non-commissioned officers and soldiers, such as the army's The grades are distinguished by golden angles and arcs.

However, the medal is formulated and awarded by the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs. In terms of his relationship with the Supreme Military Committee of the National Political Axe, Zhang Xuewu estimates that he may not get the level and number of medals he wants! It will be difficult to report it layer by layer.

Therefore, Zhang Xuewu wonders whether he can reward officers and soldiers in another form, a unique reward for officers and soldiers under his command of the tenth war zone. For example, the iron cross medal worn by German officers and soldiers made Zhang Xuewu very envious and inspired. Zhang Xuewu decided to let Chief of staff Li Xinkai lead the study of a batch of tenth war zones. For unique honor ornaments, Zhang Xuewu suggested to make a batch of shields with a diameter of about 50 grams, called the "merit" honor medal. According to the first, second and third levels, the third level of copper, the second level of sterling silver, the first level is gold and silver alloy, and the shield pattern is the national territory background of the Great Wall, and the third and second levels are awarded with outstanding achievements in the battle. The standard is set by the staff force, and the award standard of each level is ten times that of the previous one, which shows the difficulty of obtaining.

Army infantry award first-class meritorious honorary medals and make new contributions. They can add double swords, national emblems and inlaid rubies on the meritorious honor medals. Armored soldiers can add tanks, national emblems, inlaid rubies, artillery, national emblems, rubies, communication soldiers, medical officers, civil servants, military police, special forces, engineering forces, etc. They all add their own professional arms symbols, national emblems and rubies.

On the other hand, the air force fighter pilots add wings, national emblem and sapphire, and the bomber troops add the bullet symbol, national emblem and sapphire, and the fighter pilots have the same honor as the tank soldiers, that is, every time an enemy aircraft is shot down, a star can be added to the bottom of the shield, if it is like Gao Zhihang. The shooting down of dozens of Japanese warplanes in that way is equivalent to using the little star to make a circle of shields, which is very dazzling and beautiful.

Moreover, Zhang Xuewu also specially made a number of armbands. For example, the Peking University Battalion was the first to launch the first shot against the Japanese invaders, and the cuffs of the surviving officers and soldiers will be sewn with two two-finger-wide honor sleeves. The left side of the country is written in Chinese, and the right side is the blue-blooded blue sky!

The surviving officers and soldiers who participated in the defense of Nanjing are revenge and vow to return to the earth! At the junction of the two ends of Xiufeng, there are words to commemorate the Peking University's resistance against the enemy, the Nanjing Defense War, the Chengde Defense War, and the Chaoyang Counterattack.

Zhang Xuewu believes that this can bring a kind of encouragement to officers and soldiers that cannot be given materially. The troops in the tenth war zone wearing new military uniforms and honor badges and honor medals can be said to have little to do with the national political axe except for the blue and white military emblem on the top of their heads! Now, in addition to taking care of face and giving military rugs to the 12th Divisions in the tenth war zone, all the remaining supplies have been stopped. Even so, Chiang Kai-shek still believes that Zhang Xuewu has intercepted too much from Soviet aid materials.

In fact, Zhang Xuewu is also difficult to distinguish, because of the assistance mode of international standard materials, consumption and loss on the way are included. For example, ten tons of gasoline are consumed seven tons during transportation, and only three tons are actually received, but it must be received according to ten tons on the book.

(to be continued)